learning

Do you want to have a meaningful life? Then one thing you should do is having personal projects. I first heard about it from Brian Little. But when I looked at my life, I realized that I have been doing it for a long time. I have always had personal projects. And indeed, they make me feel fulfilled. Here are some of my personal projects throughout the years: Writing simple computer games when I was in high school. Writing a…

Learning is culture, a lifelong process, and attitude that serves anyone who adopts such a lifestyle with continuous growth. Such a lifestyle of constantly seeking to acquire knowledge, skills, and experiences drives you towards growth. Our experiences in life, career, relationships all add up to our progress or decline but more on how we apply the things we have learned. There can be no growth without learning. Do you know why? When you were a child you learned to crawl…

The most popular online course of all-time is called Learning How to Learn, taught by Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering and author of many books on learning math and science, and Terry Sejnowski, one of the foremost experts on cognitive neuroscience. This course has been wildly popular, and indeed it is how many of you found me. (Barb interviews me in a later section of the course.) While the course is fantastic, and I strongly recommend you give it…

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”~ Eleanor Roosevelt When I was in my 20’s, I found a TED video called “Why do we do what we do” by Tony Robbins and it made me realize that it was a question that I’ve been asking myself subconsciously all my life. Why was I destroying my life in the ways I was doing…